Idea Quotes

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'cool, that's something I want to do.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.